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The romance of two liars

August 27, 2026 in him-and-her by Matthew Brown

Both of them were lifelong con artists. They met when they were both pulling similar fake romance scams on the same rich and obnoxious family. Neither expected to fall in love.

Nanna’s last wish…

August 26, 2026 in prompts by Jason Latnar

It was your great-grandmother’s wish for there to be one last family reunion before she passed. Everyone must attend. No exceptions. This was fine until assorted alien spacecraft started landing in the field behind grandmother’s house.

It was a perfectly ordinary day except all the cars in the world had vanished.

August 25, 2026 in prompts by Matthew Brown

The romance author and the phone

August 22, 2026 in him-and-her by Matthew Brown

Him

He was a moderately successful romance author. If asked, he claimed to enjoy being single, but the truth was he wrote about romance because it was missing from his life.

Her

She was a lonely singer who never quite made it big. She died at a party, and her ghost has been trapped in her mobile phone ever since.

The phone with a time code

August 21, 2026 in prompts by Matthew Brown

You needed a replacement phone but were short of money, so you visited a nearby pawnshop. They only had one in your price range. It was old, but it worked and came boxed with a SIM card for a carrier you’d never heard of, but with a free £10 credit, you figured it must be worth trying.

The thing is, this phone has an odd quirk; to place a call, you must first dial a valid 8-digit time code in the order year, month, day.

What happens next?

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